After reading your post, I deleted the chromium folder from .config and reinstalled Ubuntu 16.04.3. Then I fully updated it.
The issue remains; I can do better than a screenshot: https://youtu.be/E73aWWtOv7I -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748190 Title: Chromium is Adding Unnecessary Additional Launchers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1748190/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
